Machine for measuring and cutting skirts.



7 PATENTED APR, 7, 190's.

c. r. LEY'NER. v MACHINE FORMEASURING AND CUTTING SKIRTS.

APPIJOATION FILED JUNE 21. 1907.

kmwwna mv Inventor w ssy I UNITED STATES CHARLES P. LEYNER, OF BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS.

MACHINE FOR MEASURING AND CUTTING SKIRTS.

' Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 7, 1908'.

i Application filed June 21, 1907. Serial No. 380,059.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES P. LEYNER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts,have invented new and useful Improvements in .Machines for Measuring andCutting Skirts, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in machines for measuring andcutting skirts, and the object is first, to provide a machine by meansof which the length of a skirt may be conveniently and accuratelymeasured and a line scribed around it, and second, to provide a machineby means of which a skirt may be conveniently out to the proper lengthwhile on the form of the wearer or on a model supported on the machine.

The invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts setforth in the following specificationand particularly pointed out in theappended claims.

Referring to the drawings: Figure 1 is a vertical sectional elevation ofthe machine showing thesame in use. Fig. 2 is a plan section, partlybroken away, taken on line 22 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detailplan section of a portion of the pawl and ratchet.

In the drawings, 5 is a base on which a pedestal 6 is mounted to rotateabout a vertical axis. A plate 7 is fast to the base 5 while a plate 8is fast to the pedestal 6, there being a plurality of balls 9 interposedbetween said plates, said balls and said plates constituting a ballbearing. A pivotal pin or bolt 10 extends through the plates 7 and 8. Anarm 11 provided with a handle 12 is j ournaled on the plate 7, therebeing a screw 13 having screw-threaded engagement with the hub 14 of thearm 11, said screw extend ing into an annular groove 15 formed in theplate 7. The plate 8 is provided with a plurality of teeth 16 which arepreferably symmetrical in form. These teeth I prefer to formsemi-circular on the top and bottom, that is, the plate 8 with the teeth16 thereon constitutes a ratchet. A pawl 17 is pivoted at 18 to thearmll, said pawl being provided with a plurality of teeth identical withthose on the plate 8.

A lever 19 pivoted at 20 to the arm 11 is connected to the pawl 17 by alink 21. A support 22 comprises a collar 23 slidably mounted on the arm11 and a rod 24 pivotally mounted on said collar, there being a setscrew 25 by means of which the collar 23 may be clamped in any desiredposition on the arm 11, While a thumb nut 26 having screw-threadedengagement with a bolt 27 is adapted to clamp the rod 24 in the desiredangular relation to the arm 11. The rod 24 is preferably provided withgraduations which constitute a scale, the zero mark of said scale lyingin the same plane as the upper surface of the pedestal 6. A gage 28 isslidably mounted on the rod 24, there being aset screw 29 havingscrew-threaded engagement with clamp said gage in any desired positionon the rod 24. A bracket 30 is adjustably mounted on the rod 24, saidbracket being secured to said rod by means of a set screw 31. A pair ofshears 32 is mounted on the bracket 30, the pivotal pin 33 of saidshears passing through said bracket and securing said shears to saidbracket. The shears 32 may be provided with a spring 34.

inbefore specifically described is as follows: The skirt to be measuredand cut maybe placed either on the woman or on a model, as may bedesired. The woman stands on the pedestal 6 and the inside of the skirt35 hangs against the gage 28, as shown in Fig. 1. If it be desired tomake the skirt clear the ground by three inches the tailor places thegage 28 at three inches and with a piece of tailors chalk marks a lineon the outside of the skirt pressing the skirt against the gage 28 whiledoing so. The tailor then grasps the handle 12 and lever 19 therebymoving the pawl 17 into engagement with the ratchet teeth and by rockingthe arm 11 on its pivot rotates the pedestal 6 the desired distance andthus continues to scribe a line around the skirt by rotating thepedestal 6 from time to time as the marking proceeds. It will be seenthat owing to the form of the teeth of the ratchet and pawl the pedestal6 may be rotated in either direction at will or stopped in any position.If it be desired to leave three inches of the skirt to be turned up toform the hem the tailor moves the bracket 30 to the proper position sothat the cutting edges of the shears 32 will occupy theircorrectposition with relation to the line previously marked upon theskirt 35 and the tailor then cuts said skirt by means of said shearsrotating the pedestal 6 from time to time as the operation of cuttingproceeds.

The rod 24 when not in use may be folded said gage, said set screwbeingadapted to The general operation of the machine heredown againstsaid arm. It will be seen that owing to the fact that the tailor is notobliged to move around the skirt while doing the marking and cuttingthat the work may be done much more conveniently than would be the caseif he were obliged to do so andfurthermore, the work can be moreconveniently done than would be possible if the person were obliged toturn around during the operation of marking and cutting.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire by LettersPatent to secure is:

1. In a machine of the character described, a stationary base, apedestal mounted on said base to rotate about a vertical axis, means tointermittently rotate said edestal, said means comprising a horizontaarm, and a gage supported on said arm.

2. In a machine of the character described, a stationary base, apedestal mounted on said base to rotate about a vertical axis, means tointermittently rotate said pedestal, said means comprising a horizontalarm, a sup port adjustably mounted on said arm to be moved toward andaway from said axis, and a gage mounted on said support.

3. In a machine of the character described, a stationary base, apedestal mounted on said base to rotate about a vertical axis, means tointermittently rotate said pedestal, said means comprising a horizontalarm, a support adjustably mounted on said arm to be moved toward andaway from said axis, and a gage adjustably mounted on said support to bemoved vertically.

4. In a machine of the character described, a stationary base, apedestal mounted on said base to rotate about a vertical axis, means tointermittently rotate said pedestal, said means comprising ahorizontalarm, and a pair of shears supported on said arm.

5. In a machine of the character described, a stationary base, apedestal mounted on said base to rotate about a vertical axis, means tointermittently rotate said pedestal, said means comprising a horizontalarm, a support mounted on said arm, and a pair of shears adjustablymounted on said support to be moved vertically.

6. In a machine of the character described, a stationary base, apedestal mounted on said base to rotate about a vertical axis, means tointermittently rotate said pedestal, said means comprising a horizontalarm, a collar adj ustably mounted on said arm to be moved toward andaway from said axis, a rod pivotally mounted on said collar, and a gagevertically adjustable on said rod. I

7. In a machine of the character described, a stationary base, apedestal mounted on said base to rotate about a vertical axis, means tointermittently rotate said pedestal, said means comprising a horizontalarm, a collar adjustably mounted on said arm to be moved toward and awayfrom said axis, a rod pivotally mounted on said collar, and a pair ofshears supported on said rod.

8. In a machine of the character described, a stationary base, apedestal mounted on said base to rotate about a vertical axis, means tointermittently rotate said edestal, said means comprising a 'horizontaarm, a collar adjustably mounted on said arm to be moved toward and awayfrom said axis, a rod mounted on said collar, a bracket adjustablymounted on said rod to be moved vertically, and a pair of shearspivotally mounted on said bracket.

9. In a machine of the character described, astationary base, a pedestalmounted on said base to rotate about a vertical axis, an arm pivoted toswing about said axis, a gage sup ported on said arm, a ratchet fast tosaid pedestal, and a pawl supported on said arm and adapted tooperatively engage said ratchet.

10. In a machine of the character described, a stationary base, apedestal mounted on said base to rotate about a vertical axis, an armpivoted to swing about said axis, a gage supported on said arm, aratchet fast to said pedestal, a pawl supported on said arm and adaptedto operatively engage said ratchet, a lever pivotally mounted on saidarm, and a link connected to said pawl and said lever.

11. In a machine of the character described, a stationary base, apedestal mounted on said base to rotate about a vertical axis, an armpivoted to swing about said axis, a support adjustably mounted on saidarm to be moved toward and away from said axis, a gage mounted on saidsupport, a ratchet fast to said pedestal, and a pawl supported on saidarm and adapted to operatively engage said ratchet.

12. In a machine of the character described, a stationary base, apedestal mounted on said base to rotate about a vertical axis, an armpivoted to swing about said axis, a gage supported on said arm, aratchet fast to said pedestal, said ratchet being provided withsymmetrical teeth, a pawl sup ported on said arm and adapted to engagesaid ratchet, said pawl being provided with symmetrical teeth, and meansto move said pawl into and out of engagement with said ratchet.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

CHARLES P. LEYNER.

Witnesses:

LoUIs A. JoNEs, SADIE V. MCCARTHY.

